{"id":203,"date":"2013-05-04T17:43:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T00:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/?p=203"},"modified":"2013-05-04T17:43:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T00:43:45","slug":"rhubarb-ginger-shrub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/2013\/05\/rhubarb-ginger-shrub\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhubarb Ginger Shrub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cam told me about <a href=\"http:\/\/harmonioushomestead.com\/2012\/05\/29\/rhubarb-shrub-a-drinking-vinegar-recipe\/\">shrubs<\/a> (the colonial preservation method of making a vinegar syrup) the other day, as a suggestion for what we could do with our rhubarb. So I&#8217;m trying it today. I&#8217;ll update this post as it develops. <\/p>\n<p>So far, I&#8217;ve cut up two ~9 ounce bunches of rhubarb, added 9 ounces of sugar to each, and about 2 ounces of ginger to one of them. I&#8217;ve got them sitting for a while now, and will macerate them and let them sit at least overnight next. After that, I&#8217;ll add 9 ounces of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockridgeorchards.com\/\">Rockridge<\/a> apple cider vinegar and let them sit at room temperature for a couple of days, and then in the fridge for a week or two before straining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cam told me about shrubs (the colonial preservation method of making a vinegar syrup) the other day, as a suggestion for what we could do with our rhubarb. So I&#8217;m trying it today. I&#8217;ll update this post as it develops. So far, I&#8217;ve cut up two ~9 ounce bunches of rhubarb, added 9 ounces of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/2013\/05\/rhubarb-ginger-shrub\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rhubarb Ginger Shrub<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[68,69,65,67,66,70],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5wUSd-3h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}